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NCAA Final Four 1985 – Georgetown v. Villanova

Mar 16, 2012 1 Comment by

It was the best of times, till Nova shot 90 percent (we all know why!) and the best team in the country couldn’t beat a game Nova squad for the 3rd time in a season……

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Trujillo scores and the Black Army heads to SF

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments by

by John Santos Bzz…bzzz..bzzz… 4:05am.  While most people are still asleep at that time of day, I was up and as ready as I would ever be to get the day going.  After taking care of the early morning essentials, the journey was set to begin.  While I had made the journey to the barren [...]

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Odin Live @ The Whisky 8/27/11

Dec 20, 2011 No Comments

by Sean W. What a weekend!  I am a huge Odin fan.  I love their debut Don’t Take No For An Answer and the subsequent albums all had some killer tunes on them.  When I found out in the Spring that Odin was doing a show, I had to go.  I’ve wanted to see them [...]

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Name the teams Kirk Gibson played for..go ahead

Dec 17, 2011 2 Comments

by Joseph Terrazas We took the 300 miles drive up to Arlington at the ex-minor league stadium that the Texas Rangers played at, it was a very wide open stadium – long fences. You can tell by my picture of Gibson how deep the fences are. I was telling the kids about Kirk Gibson who [...]

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A Trip to the Empire State Building

Dec 07, 2011 1 Comment

by Joseph Terrazas Visiting My little Sister In N.Y.C. She took us to see all the great sights. I always wanted to see The Empire State Building since I was a little kid and and cried as My King Kong was shot down from there. (Oddly – King Kong and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves were [...]

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Winning big at St. B’s Wine Tasting

Oct 29, 2011 No Comments

by Matt P. So, what do you do if you don’t like wine, but are already committed to join your good friends at a PTA fundraiser at their kids’ school (technically I love wine but get these crushing “hide in the car, away from all light and noise for an hour headaches”. So to all [...]

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In search of Daisy Duke

Oct 19, 2011 No Comments

by Jonathan H. Duke Gardens is what old real money is all about. Anytime we’re talking about 2000+ acres of manicured this, and scuplted that – you can’t help but wish you had of taste of what of it must have been like if your daddy had founding the American “freakin” Tobacco Company – politcal [...]

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9/11 Memorial

Oct 05, 2011 No Comments

by Just another New Yorker My wife and I visited the 911 Memorial a very beautiful autumn morning. It was my wife first time near the World Trade Center site since 911. It was a very emotional walk around the park. The memorial is very peaceful and respectful to those who are remembered with their [...]

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Cooperstown – Baseball Hall of Fame

Sep 06, 2011 No Comments

by Joseph Terrazas Cooperstown New York, (Named After James Fennimore Cooper) ( The Last of the Mohicans, Fame) I’m from Kansas City and visited my youngest sister in New York City, and had to take the pilgrimage, to the hall of fame in upstate N.Y. by train. And we went during Spring break, March of [...]

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Sabbath – 1983

Aug 23, 2011 1 Comment

by Michael Didur Oct 27, 1983 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Buffalo, NY USA We hitchhiked and some girls picked us up by the on ramp of the QEW and they drove us across the border and dropped us off in Niagara Falls NY. We were standing there trying to figure out how we would get the [...]

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